From the Big Bang to God: The Universe's Biggest Mysteries
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Listening to Michael Sherber Show. All right, everybody, it's Michael Shermer. It's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show brought to you as always by Skeptic Society and Skeptic Magazine. Hey, here's the new issue on Animal minds can they think Well, of course they can think.
But what are they thinking? Well you have to read our issue to find out. You can go to skeptic.com slash magazine to order your latest issue, order a subscription one two or three years, and order any of the back issues all the way back to nineteen ninety two. Yes, we've been in business for a long time. There's a lot of bunk to be debunked. So but we don't just do that. We also do a lot of interesting scientific questions. So my guest today is Kelsey Johnson. She's a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia. Former president of the American Astronomical Society.
And founder of the award winning Dark Skies Bright Kids program. She's won numerous awards for her research, teaching, and promotion of science literacy. She lives in rural Virginia with her family, including two very big dogs. I bet they're not as big as my dog. I have a huge chocolate lab, he's a hundred and twenty five pounds. Okay, mine is a hundred and twenty, so I think it's a little and twenty, but he's overweight.'Cause I give him I give him people food. Uh anyway, but her new book, here it is, Into the Unknown, The Quest to understand the mysteries of the cosmos. And when I say that I mean the biggest ones of of all. Like why is there something rather than nothing? What is the big bang? What bang the big bang
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